Energy Act 2010

33 Licence modifications etc

(1) This section applies in relation to a power to make modifications conferred by—

(a) section 12(1) (schemes for reducing fuel poverty);

(b) section 18(1) (exploitation of electricity trading and transmission arrangements);

(c) section 25(1) (notice of unilateral changes to domestic supply contracts).

(2) Subsection (5) also applies in relation to the power conferred by section 23(7) (expiry of power conferred by section 18(1)).

(3) The power—

(a) may be exercised generally, only in relation to specified cases or subject to exceptions (including provision for a case to be excepted only so long as specified conditions are satisfied);

(b) may be exercised differently in different cases;

(c) includes a power to make incidental, supplemental, consequential or transitional modifications.

(4) Provision included in licences by virtue of the power may make different provision for different cases.

(5) The Secretary of State must publish details of any modifications as soon as reasonably practicable after they are made.

(6) A modification of part of a standard condition of a particular licence does not prevent any other part of the condition from continuing to be regarded as a standard condition for the purposes of Part 1 of the 1986 Act or Part 1 of the 1989 Act.

(7) Where the Secretary of State makes a modification of the standard conditions of a licence of any type, the Authority must—

(a) make the same modification of those standard conditions for the purposes of their incorporation in licences of that type granted after that time, and

(b) publish the modification.